NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC PROGRAM—1965 
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Table 4. 
FY 1965 Obligations for Oceanographic Research, by problem area 
Objective 
. Physical properties and motion of the sea 
. Ocean-atmosphere interrelationship 
. Biological properties 
. Structure and history of the ocean floor 
. Modification of the sea 
Totals * 
GB oo PO 
Approximate Proposed 
FY 63 BY SOs: FY 65 
11,812 15,000 20,524** 
4,000 5,500 5,890 
15,000 18,500 18,611 
12,500 15,000 19;235 =e 
8,900 10,000 8,862 
52,212 64,000 735122 
“These figures include support for research performed within the International Indian Ocean Expedition Program. 
They equate to the sum of the Research and IIOE functional areas in the budget tables. By prior arrangement, the 
meteorology program carried out within IIOE is reported by the Interdepartmental Committee on Atmospheric Sciences; 
this tends to depress the apparent support given to objective II. 
®*Some areas of research have received increased emphasis because of new development or urgent needs in these 
areas. Marine biology has been a field set aside for special emphasis. 
These categories of research problems, while 
mutually exclusive, are necessarily arbitrary. Ship 
operating costs, small laboratory equipment, and 
expendable supplies are included with research. 
The International Indian Ocean Expedition has 
been separately listed in Table 3 because of the 
very extensive nature of U.S. commitments but, by 
class of activity, it is considered research. 
Again, further details are set forth in Volume II. 
It should be understood that a substantial frac- 
tion of the research is conducted in private and 
university laboratories and that grants and con- 
tracts are awarded by the National Science Foun- 
dation, Office of Naval Research, and other agen- 
cies on the basis of merit and available funds. 
Surveys can be characterized best by the follow- 
ing table showing the number of ships by geo- 
graphical areas in which survey operations are 
scheduled during FY 1965. 
Table 5. 
FY 1965 Operating Areas of Survey Ships 
Atlantic 
Western Atlantic 4 large 1 small 
Southeast Coast of USA 1 large 4 small 
North Atlantic 1 large — 
Gulf of Mexico 1 large — 
Western Tropical Atlantic Zancai 
Pacific 
Western Pacific (mostly 
Japan-Philippines area) 4 large 1 small 
Eastern Pacific 1 large — 
North Pacific 4 large — 
Indian Ocean 1 large — 
Unassigned (on shakedown) 3 large — 
These surveys include measurement of water 
depth, water temperature, salinity, magnetic field, 
gravity, samples of bottom sediment, and biota. 
Capital plant expansion in the form of new 
ships, new instrumentation, and new shore facili- 
ties, are also detailed in Volume II. 
Funding for the National Oceanographic Data 
Center, a Navy-administered but jointly funded 
data bank, is also separately described. 
